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cholesterol?

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Myth No 7: Cholesterol is going to kill you

Cholesterol is absolutely life critical and vital – not
the bad guy in any way, shape or form. You would
literally die without cholesterol. It is one of the
most vital substances in the human body – it is a
key part of the structure for every cell in your
body; it is vital for all hormone production and
reproduction; it is vital for digestion – the body
uses cholesterol to synthesise bile acids – without
this you could not digest fat or absorb the vital fat
soluble vitamins; cholesterol is vital for bones and
all the roles performed by vitamin D and the brain
contains about 25% of the body’s cholesterol –
making it completely vital to mind and memory
functions and our entire operation as a human
being.
Cholesterol is so vital to the body that our
bodies make it. The body cannot risk leaving it to
chance that we would get it externally from some
where – that’s how critical it is. Statins stop the
body from producing the cholesterol that it is
designed to produce. They literally stop one of our
fundamental body processes from being able to
function.
One i n 5 0 0 p e o p l e h a v e f a m i l i a l
hypercholesterolemia and may have a problem
clearing cholesterol in their body (rather like type
1 diabetics who can’t return their blood glucose
levels to normal). For anyone else to be actively
trying to lower their vital and life affirming
cholesterol levels is deeply troubling.
The intelligent view on statins is that, in the
very limited arena where they appear to have some
‘benefit’ (men over 50 who have already had a
heart attack), they ‘work’ by having antiinflammatory
properties and that the fact that they
lower cholesterol (by stopping the body from being
able to produce this vital substance) is a very
unfortunate side effect. (Drug companies should
work on developing something that has the antiinflammatory
benefit without this huge and
damaging side effect – it’s called aspirin).